Awoke to cats frantically meowing and when I plodded out to see what was what I saw their food area moving on it's own... hmmmm... a closer inspection revealed...

ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNTS!!!

picture the tiger with sticky tape on all four paws frantically daubing ants...

STAKES!!! Get the Grant's Ant STAKES!!! so pawed with the stakes I go outside to place them around the perimeter of our home...

More STAKES!!! We need MORE STAKES!!! NO MORE???!!! ACK!!! ohshit ohshit ohshit

Picture the tiger driving to the hardware store for more Grant's Stakes... damn ants... I told them when we moved in, you stay out here and we won't have any problems... did they listen? Nooooooooooo... and now it's WARRRRRRRR!!!

Get to hardware store and although they say with some confidence that Ace is the Place... they had only ONE box left... SNAG!!!

dayum... must be goin on all over the county... it's an ant uprising I'm tellin you... and then I saw it...

I grow mint in my herb garden, and when I have ants, I put down a few sprigs of the mint, and pretty soon the ants are gone. Of course, I've never been infested with them like you're describing, Stripey, but the mint oil and/or natural mint are all good things to use.

Catherine

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A thorough inspection outside reveals nary a single one near the perimeter of our home... I was willing to coexist in peace as long as they remained outside...

we have pennyroyal plants to go into the ground but... it doesn't like sun, so we are kind of limited in where we can plant it... but once it's in, it will spread of it's own accord as long as it''s not sunny...

Yes, Jesse, I purrfurr the natural way to the chemical methods...

and obtw... for any of you who may have had trouble visualizing a tiger driving to the hardware store...

mga, the mint is setting seeds now. They are still green, they have to ripen yet. Seeds are on the top 1/3 of the stalk at the base of each leaf. The knobby look they have now will turn into spikes when they are ripe.

Be careful when you are taking them--wear leather gloves if you have them.